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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Glenn Henry Dusbabek.

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GLENN HENRY DUSBABEK

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

May 1, 1949 – June 19, 1968

Service record

Glenn Henry Dusbabek, of Waco, Texas, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 19, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 56W · Line 33

Position of Panel 56W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Mortarman (0341)
Born
May 1, 1949
Home of record
Waco, Texas (Mclennan County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 19, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 56W, Line 33

From Waco

All 45 names from Waco →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.